Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Privacy Products’ mission is to build trust that Stripe is a responsible steward of user’s data while managing privacy risk and enabling business growth.

 

The team aims to accomplish these goals by building industry leading privacy products.  These products provide: transparency to our users about Stripe’s data practices, choices and controls to our users about their data, and solutions to our customers to manage their privacy.  The team also builds internal products for Stripe engineers to meet our users’ expectations and regulatory requirements for how Stripe handles and safeguards user data. Stripe’s operating principles focus on putting Users first. This means the businesses built on Stripe and consumers who use payments through Stripe need to trust Stripe to process their data. Protecting our user’s data and prioritizing privacy is a means of putting users first.

What you’ll do

As a Privacy Products Engineering Manager at Stripe, you’ll lead the team responsible for building products that our customers and consumers use to manage their privacy needs with Stripe. The customer facing product portfolio includes data access tooling (Data Access Tool)  and Privacy Portal, products to help our merchants manage their customers privacy, cookie and consent frameworks, and internal facing libraries for other Stripe teams to embed privacy functionality into their products. Your role heavily impacts Stripe's overall privacy posture, and as such, you'll work cross-functionally with Product owners, engineering teams across other organizations, Privacy Legal and Ops teams.  Your work is not only impactful; it is critical to the long-term success of Stripe and our users.  We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join us and lead Stripe engineers in building trustworthy financial infrastructure for the internet.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Build and grow external facing privacy products such as Data Access Tool and Privacy Portal.
• Build API products for customers to help them manage their privacy requirements. 
• Build internal tools for other Stripe teams to help manage their privacy requirements.
• Work with other Stripe leaders, Privacy cross-functional teams to limit privacy exposure in our customer facing products.
• Lead the team’s charter, partnering with tech leadership on system architecture and direction of user facing features.
• Set clear goals and direction, and provide regular feedback on team members’ performance.
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.
• Technically dig in when the team needs support, including contributing to dashboard development, metric analysis, designing experiments, proof-of-concept work, exploring new tools to adopt, etc.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• Significant experience in privacy or cybersecurity engineering.
• Familiarity with automated privacy tools and triage processes
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar

Preferred qualifications

• You’ve managed teams responsible for privacy or cybersecurity tools/products
• You are deeply technical, but prefer to lean on your leadership skills
• You’re comfortable planning in quarters, and also have experience planning in years
• You’re a talent magnet and technical leader, you know when to get your hands dirty and how to enable your team
• You are able to drive execution of high impact work while incorporating feedback from multiple sources.
• You are excited about collaborating with teammates across Stripe’s organization
• You’ve managed other technical leads

• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment

 

By joining our team, you will have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach, securely and responsibly.